2005 in music. • Page 4

I still had an ipod till about 2010. I didn't get spotify until the end of 2010 when said Ipod shit the bed for good.

 

I basically lived at Newbury Comics at this time.

 

2005
1. Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine
2. Thrice - Vheissu
3. The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute

4. Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
5. Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
6. Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
7. Panic! At The Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
8. Coldplay - X&Y
9. Garbage - Bleed Like Me
10. System Of A Down - Mezmerize
11. Hidden In Plain View - Life In Dreaming
12. Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
13. Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
14. Flyleaf
15. 311 - Don't Tread On Me

Honorable Mentions
Jimmy Eat World - Stay On My Side Tonight EP
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland Soundtrack

Favorite songs from other 2005 albums
Jack's Mannequin - "The Mixed Tape"
Anberlin - "Never Take Friendship Personal"
Shakira - "La Tortura"
Alkaline Trio - "Time To Waste"
Bloodhound Gang - "Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo"
DANGERDOOM - "Old School Rules"
Animal Collective - "Grass"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "Little Sister"
Thirty Seconds To Mars - "Attack"
Unwritten Law - "She Says"
blink-182 - "Not Now"
OK Go - "Here It Goes Again"
The Academy Is... - "The Phrase That Pays"
Motion City Soundtrack - "Make Out Kids"
Dropkick Murphys - "I'm Shipping Up To Boston"
Gorillaz - "DARE"
t.A.T.u. - "Friend Or Foe"
Boys Night Out - "Composing"
Avenged Sevenfold - "Bat Country"
Depeche Mode - "Suffer Well"
Lil Wayne - "Shooter"
Eminem, Nate Dogg - "Shake That"
Bloc Party - "Banquet"
Beck - "E-Pro"
Royksopp - "What Else Is There?"
50 Cent - "Candy Shop"
Weezer - "Beverly Hills"

I loved Say Hello To Sunshine since I heard it when it first came out. It only grew on me more over the years and I've always considered it my favorite Finch album. Vheissu is also quite an achievement but I hadn't listened in full until a decade later, so less nostalgia attached to it. Frances The Mute is a musical odyssey, though I never loved "The Widow" or "Miranda" as much as the others.

 

I had an ipod until 2018 as I am remain the 2022 version of retro in that I keep an mp3 collection on my 512 gig phone. 2005 was PRIME years for leaks/downloading.

 

I still don't really use Spotify.... 90% of my listening is iTunes local files

 

I don't even use iTunes anymore even tho I have an iPhone. Might be my OCD and the many years of organizing and making Playlists, but Spotify is my bitch. when it went down last week for like 45 minutes, its like I had my arm cut off or something.

 

I was moreso referring to burning music.

 

Burning music.

 

If you look at the eps & music has the right as kind of the BoC baseline, Geogaddi feels like a dark attempt at a sequel and Campfire the happy one. I think it’s every bit as good as those records, but easily the most accessible.

 

1. Motion City Soundtrack – Commit This to Memory
2. Thrice – Vheissu
3. Jack's Mannequin – Everything in Transit

4. Mae – The Everglow
5. The National – Alligator
6. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois
7. The Receiving End of Sirens – Between the Heart and the Synapse
8. Kanye West – Late Registration
9. Coheed and Cambria – From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
10. Bayside – Bayside
11. Bright Eyes – I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
12. Circa Survive – Juturna
13. The Fall of Troy – Doppelganger
14. The Spill Canvas – One Fell Swoop
15. Acceptance – Phantoms

 

Was Foo Fighters “In your Honor” the CD that you couldn’t rip? Like, it had some new copyright protection that pissed a ton of people off?

 

Also, thinking back to 2005, I remember Best Buy selling new CDs for $4.99. I got Vheeisu, Everything in Transit, and Denver Harbors CDs for that price.

 

Craig and Julie not to get technical but I didn't think Spotify even launched in the US until 2011 - did y'all have some sort of special access or live abroad?

 

I still don’t use that stuff. I need to own my music, either via CDs or iTunes (or both)

 

Cheers, great list as always.

Say Hello To Sunshine I was a big fan of at the time, especially because it was more raw and less immediate than What It Is To Burn (which don't get me wrong, I also loved). I did have it slotted in towards the bottom of my Top 30 when I made it today, but switched it out as it has just been so long since I've heard it in full that I was afraid that it doesn't hold up.

I will have to revisit it this week for sure!

 

Lol, I was clearly joking!

 

LMAO dammit you got me for real

 

I’ve always felt like I had to defend that album but I feel like that for other albums most years anyways! I listened to it in full last week and I had a blast. Still holds up in my opinion but I wouldn’t argue against cutting a couple songs (Fireflies & Miro perhaps? Still good though!)

 

It was a bummer how they fizzled out so quickly after this one. I remember seeing them at their 'reunion' tour, which upon checking was in 2008:

Finch Setlist at Recher Theatre, Towson

They did play 4 from SHTS, which was cool. Wiki also tells me that they released a third album in 2014, which I am certain I have never heard. Something to check out 9 weeks from now I suppose lol

 

Its hard to remember a lot of 2010-2011 but you are correct, I got my account in 2011.

Had to go look at when I made my first Folder for albums I listened to that year...was in fact 2011.

 

This year was so fun to right about. I went into thinking it was more of a transition year but then was amazed by how many albums I dug from this year:

01) SYSTEM OF A DOWN - Mesmerize / Hypnotize

Just a disgustingly consistent and wild ride across two lean and infectious albums. Everything System does is done exceptionally well on here and the stylistic detours often led by Daron are really fantastic.

02) MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK - Commit This To Memory

An absolute scene-standard, Motion City really deserved more credit for bringing indie-style new wavey power pop to the Warped Tour crowd.

03) THRICE - Vheissu

A hugely ambitious record that set Thrice apart from all the bands they toured with at the time. The embrace of art-rock and space worked especially well for them here.

04) PANIC! AT THE DISCO - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out

The hype and backlash about this band before most people had heard this record was insane. Panic delivered by out-clevering their proteges in Fall Out Boy and even landed on the cover Rolling Stone first.

05) JACK'S MANNEQUIN - Everything In Transit

Andrew McMahon turned a new corner with shit project, cementing that he is one of America's best songwriters.

06) THE DECEMBERISTS - Picaresque

Outwardly engaging and fun, I had no idea indie rock could sound like this but the Decemberists really expanded my taste in 2005.

07) DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - Plans

An incredibly sad and melancholic debut for a major label, Death Cab just kept doing what they do best on this.

08) FALL OUT BOY - From Under The Cork Tree

The big leagues never phased Fall Out Boy (and, really, they were signed to Island before even recording TTTYG). This is pop-punk on steroids with FOB embracing the genre that brought them to this level one last time before going onto bigger and better things.

09) BLOC PARTY - Silent Alarm

UK post-punk done incredibly well with an added emphasis on guitar attack.

10) SIGUR ROS - Takk

Perhaps the most beautiful record from a band that has been giving us beautiful soundscapes for, now, over 20 years.

11) LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - LCD Soundsystem

A debut that esssentially sounded like a greatest hits.

12) THE NATIONAL - Alligator

With apologies to their first two solid but unremarkable releases, this is really where The National story starts and where everyone should begin.

13) OASIS - Don't Believe The Truth

What seperates a great Oasis record from a merely good one can be hard to explain but it comes down to swagger, melody and all-around confidence and this record has all three.

14) BLACK LAB - See The Sun

I called out this band's 1997 debut in that thread and this was the ill-fated glossy follow-up that was shelved in major label archives until the band was able to gain the rights. U2 run through the modern-rock filter, a fantastic pop/rock record.

15) QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - Lullabies To Paralyze

Josh Homme proved he could do it on his own with this strutty blues garage rock beast.

16) BECK - Guero

Beck gets back to enjoying himself and making grooves.

17) CIRCA SURVIVE - Juturna

I never cared much for Saosin but this prog-leaning emo record is what got me on the Anthony Green team.

18) FRANZ FERDINAND - You Could Have It So Much Better

Forever slated to live in the shadow of the debut I sometimes prefer this record as it's overall faster and more energetic while also being more melodic.

19) DEPECHE MODE - Playing The Angel

After a few uneven records the 'Mode was firing on all cylinders and showing the synth/dance indie groups at the time how it's truly done.

20) THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Twin Cinema

This band does not have a bad record to its name and this one has their all-time best song ("Bleeding Heart Show")

21) KAISER CHIEFS - Employment

While they never achieved the level of success here that they did in the UK, I still love this band this is a great debut of mod-influenced post-punk

22) THE ACADEMY IS - Almost Here

Although initially sounding like another Fall Out Boy jr, The Academy Is proved they were their own band and this was the beginning of a cool run of albums.

23) THE WHITE STRIPES - Get Behind Me, Satan

More experimental than the previous White Stripes records, Jack White still runs circles around all the other garage-rock bands of the time.

24) AUDIOSLAVE - Out OF Exile

The Audioslave debut was a little long but on this one, they tightened up and showcased how well they could work together.

25) VENDETTA RED - Sisters Of The Read Death

I think Vendetta Red got signed for some stupid amount of money when labels were looking for the next Thursday. Since their major label debut bombed they were freed up to do whatever they wanted and responded a much more melodic, rich, assured and frankly BETTER album that was lost to major label's lack of promotion.

26) THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS - Move Along

Beefing up their geeky power-pop, AAR goes big rawk and does it well

27) ACCEPTANCE - Phantoms

Highly anticipated in these circles, this has fallen a bit for me in recent years but still an excellent collection of earnest and heartfelt pop/rock.

28) SPOON - Gimme Fiction

THe balance of straight indie bangers mixed with the sound of instruments falling apart (in a good way) adds another great record to Spoon's books.

29) GARBAGE - Bleed Like Me

90's veterans come back with one of their most assured releases to date, tamping down the electronics and turning up the guitars.

30) NINE INCH NAILS - With Teeth

A sober Trent Reznor comes back with his hookiest and leanest record to date (at the time).

ADDITIONAL SHOUTOUTS:

CARTEL - Chroma
OVER IT - Silverstrand
FOO FIGHTERS - In Your Honor
COLDPLAY - X&Y
BETTER THAN EZRA - BEfore The Robots
ALKALINE TRIO - Crimson
AGAINST ME - Searching For A Former Clarity
THE BRAVERY - The Bravery
DREDG - Catch Without Arms
MXPX - Panic
MINUS THE BEAR - Minus El Oso
THE MARS VOLTA - Frances The Mute

 

Both Finch and The Starting Line put out albums in 2005 that effectively ended their careers which is a shame since I think there was more interesting stuff on those than their fan-loved 2002 debuts which they likely wrote when they were all teenagers.

 

It really was a bummer, some of the stuff on their ‘09 EP showed promise but that 2014 album wasn’t it. Not bad bad but personally I never returned to it.

 

you can’t vote for two albums at the top spot

 

Can we collectively agree that Mesmerize/Hypnotize was a double album that was released apart merely due to wanting to sell more? Not like it's gonna be top 3 anyways...